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Ulrich Weiß
Graphic designer, b. Pforzheim, 1966. He studied design at the art school in Pforzheim, where he met his future partner Lars Harmsen, and earned a degree as in graphic design. Before founding MAGMA [Büro für Gestaltung] together with Harmsen, he worked for several years as creative director for J. G & Partner in Baden-Baden. In 2005, Ulrich Weiß collaborated on a typography and photography book, entitled VERSUS, together with Lars Harmsen and Christian Ernst. The book was published by dgv Die Gestalten Verlag in Berlin. Co-leader of MAGMA [Büro für Gestaltung]. Since 2006, he is involved in the Bastard Project. Designer of the Mr J Smith series of dingbats and text fonts at Volcano in 2005 (together with Boris Kahl, Nikolai Renger and Lars Harmsen). Their blurb: When there is no picture of a most wanted or Missing Person, photofit pictures are used. Once drawn by hand, they are now more and more substituted by photomontage. The personality is created with different modules like head, eyes, nose and mouth. The vague memory of a witness leads to the image of a concrete person. Sometimes different combinations of possible looks are attributed to a same person. This new virtual image finds itself soon in thousands of archives and data bases. Anyone can easily have access to those images by internet. To increase security and help track criminals, unknown death (Mr. Smith) or lost and kidnapped people, government asks citizen to help search those people. Mr. J. Smith is a font family consisting of 4 portrait-fonts and one letter-fonts. The portrait font Mr. J. Smith is a portrait-construction-kit. By layering the fonts Head, Eye, Nose, Mouth one over the other, you can design over 7 million different typefaces. The font Wanted gives you the possibility to join names and registration numbers to the unknown or most wanted persons. |
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